IP aliasing and Postfix

[Joe Auty]

Hello,

I have a few IP aliases setup:

em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
        ether 00:0c:29:79:d5:66
        inet <address1> netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast <broadcast address>
        inet <address2> netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast <broadcast address>
        inet <address3> netmask 0xffffff80 broadcast <broadcast address>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active


How do I make address3 the ifconfig default over its aliases?


The problem is, as far as mail sending goes the IP address that should
be used is address3, when what is presented to my relayhost is address1.
My rc.conf:

ifconfig_em0="inet address3  netmask 255.255.255.128"
ifconfig_em0_alias0="inet address1  netmask 255.255.255.128"
ifconfig_em0_alias1="inet address2  netmask 255.255.255.128"


How do I get Postfix to use address3 in sending out mail? If I set
Postfix's myhostname to a FQDN that resolves as address3,
inet_interfaces will not work when set to:

inet_interfaces = $myhostname

it needs to be set to:

inet_interfaces = $myhostname, localhost


I see nothing in Postfix that would explain why Postfix is gleaming onto
address1, which makes me think that perhaps this is a BSD ifconfig thing
and it is gleaming onto the first address it finds associated with my
em0 interface, which if the ifconfig and its IP order means anything, is
address1? Does this make sense?

Anyway to set the default here?





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